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hard enough and long enough yesterday
I was abed all day about a month ago, and certainly I rove hard enough and long enough yesterday
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

hard enough and long enough you
For instance, suppose you have a lesson to learn in geography; no matter how you are feeling, whether you are proud, or humble; whether you are cross, or gentle; yet if you only study hard enough, and long enough, you can learn that lesson.
— from The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3 by Richard Newton

have exercised a lustful emotion yet
Our face has not flushed with crimson in every particular instance in which we have exercised a lustful emotion; yet it would have done so had we carefully noted every such emotion.
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

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